I just went to Bowman and you're right about there being some perma (2 or 3) draws there, Rong. You are highly wrong that it is off I 80. It is 13.5 miles down a dirt road off the 20... Next to a dam, concrete slabs, and rebar pounded into the rock and left over from the construction. Sling the rebar, dude!

A troll thread perhaps, but an interesting issue that is going to become more common as the trend appears to be that many new climbers have no aptitude or respect for a trad ethic.

There are certain climbs (like Wheat Thin) where it appears that bolts are necessary to adequately protect it. Things like Cookie Monster (haven't done it) I guess the line gets thinner: can get gear but hard to see, hard to place, etc. I'll let others debate the ultimate question of whether it was just bolted for the masses.

Other places like the Gorge, I've heard claims that the rock is weird and cams tend to pop out, etc., hence the need for bolts. Maybe. I always got the sense that the cracks there were bolted mostly out of convenience, that sport climbers wouldn't want to bring their racks and the like. Some climbs have crack moves but limited gear options. OK. Others, like the one posted by Vitaliy, I don't really see it.